Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 127 0122 [Earth Immortal]

Regardless of the smooth sales of green tea, the Zheng family will definitely lose money this year.

Although Zhu Guoxiang changed production very quickly, far exceeding the supply volume agreed by the two, it was too expensive to give gifts to officials for promotion.

Zheng Lan's goal for this year is to have a net loss of less than [-] guan!

"Go live in Daming Village, don't let the tea merchants in Xingyuan Mansion take advantage of your loopholes." Zheng Lan said to her grandson.

Zheng Hong said: "Weng Weng, Mr. Zhu and Zhu Dalang have kept their promise. They have signed a contract with my family, and they will definitely not sell the fried tea to other families. What's more, the production of fried tea this year is insufficient, and all the fried tea sold to our family will be sold. Not much, how can there be tea sold to Xingyuan Mansion?"

Zheng Lan said: "Prevention is essential. When you go to Daming Village, you don't have to stare at them deliberately. Just try to get along with Zhu's father and son. I'm not afraid of them breaking the contract, but I'm afraid that someone will learn the skill of roasting tea secretly. "

"Yes." Fatty Zheng understood.

Zheng Lan said again: "My family also has a tea mountain, if you remember, you can also write down how they fry tea."

Fatty Zheng: "..."

Don't let others steal it, and then learn it yourself?

Zheng Hong waited for two days, and the family finally arranged the boat.

There is still some grain on board, and it will be transported to Daming Village along the way.Yangzhou is located on the edge of the Hanzhong Basin, the land is extremely fertile, and the price of food here is much lower.

"Second brother!" Zheng Yuanyi chased him out.

Zheng Hong turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zheng Yuanyi said: "The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon, this is a sachet for you."

Zheng Hong said with a smile: "This year is very strange, actually thinking of making it for me."

Zheng Yuanyi blushed, but took out two sachets: "I heard that the second brother is going out, so I also bring one for Mr. Zhu's family."

Fatty Zheng was a little speechless. It turned out that he was just adding hair by the way.

Saying goodbye to my little sister, Zheng Hong went out with his entourage, and when he arrived at the pier, there were poor people queuing up to board the boat.

These are Yangzhou citizens who can't go on living happily, living in shantytowns outside the city.With the decline of Yangzhou's business, in the past few decades, citizens have become beggars every year, or fled to pan for gold.

Zhu Guoxiang asked Zheng's family to recruit people, and Zheng Lan was very cooperative, because he was recruiting to develop waste tea mountains, so that the production of green tea could be expanded next year.

Of course, helping to recruit people is also paid, along with the money to buy food.

There were only 42 people in the first batch of "immigrants" from Yangzhou, and a batch of autumn teas will be transported to the market.

"Little official, there is a priest here who wants to take a boat."

Zheng Hong turned around when he heard the words, but saw a middle-aged Taoist priest bowing to him.

Zheng Hong hurriedly returned the salute and asked, "The Taoist priest is going to Xixiang?"

Xue Daoguang said: "I'm going to Xixiang County. The post boat in Yangzhou is a bit damaged. I don't want to go through the Golden Gorge. Pindao has been waiting for the boat for many days."

The two were chatting, and suddenly several people came over.

A young man wearing a Dongpo scarf followed by several attendants: "I am Zhang Su, the new director of Xixiang County. Is this boat going to pass through the Golden Gorge?"

Zheng Hong didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly bowed and replied: "Exactly, Mr. Zhang, please come aboard."

After everyone boarded the boat, Zhang Su pointed to the poor people and said, "These dozens of people support the old and the young, and bring a lot of property. Where are they going?"

Zheng Hong replied: "The former director of Xixiang County was a rebel who recruited security. He colluded with the bandits and surrendered to rebel. The archers all beat Zhu Ming and broke the bandit village, but there were too many killings. There is a shortage of people there. Lucky some Those who broke their homes went to farm."

Zhang Su asked again: "Whether the thief village belongs to, can there be a registered household Qimin?"

"I made it up." Zheng Hong replied.

Zhang Su didn't ask any more, but said: "These dozens of people, first go to the Xixiang County Government to report, register them as households, and then send them to the bandit village."

Zheng Hong dare not refuse.

Zhang Su and Xue Daoguang lived in the same cabin, and the two exchanged their names, and they chatted quickly.

First they talked about Taoist practice, then they talked about Zen and Buddhism, and finally they turned to poetry. Both of them dabbled in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

After passing the Golden Gap, Zheng Hong was forced to make a detour to Xixiang County.

Zhang Su went straight to the county government office with dozens of "immigrants", and Bai Erlang led the subordinate staff to greet them. Not long after, the county magistrate also rushed over after hearing the news.

After exchanging pleasantries, he asked the county magistrate, "Which year was Master Zhang a Jinshi?"

"On the list." Zhang Su said.

Xiang magistrate wondered: "Since you are a Jinshi, why did you go to Xixiang to be the master's book? It is too inferior."

Zhang Su said: "My grandfather Zhang taboos Tang Yinggong, and my uncle Zhang taboos Shang Yinggong."

Grass!
Xiang Zhixian scolded his mother secretly, a bunch of subordinate staff had already given him a headache, yet another great god appeared.

Zhang Tangying, Zhang Su's grandfather, once recommended and supported Wang Anshi.

Zhang Shangying, Zhang Su's great-uncle, was the right chancellor who had just been taken down by Cai Jing.

Zhang Su was unlucky, he was probably implicated by his uncle and was thrown to Xixiang County as a Jinshi.

"These poor people have to go to Daming Village," Zhang Su said, pointing to the people behind him, "Quickly register them as customers, and send them under the names of the Zhu family and his son."

Although customers who have not registered land property do not need to pay the regular tax of Erliang, but they have to pay the labor money, and may also have to pay miscellaneous taxes.

On the first day Zhang Su took office, he showed great care to the Zhu family and his son.

When he came to the office, his luggage hadn't been put down, and his residence hadn't been arranged yet, so Zhang Su said, "Bring all the household and account books over the years!"

Bai Erlang smiled: "The former director Zhu, corrupted the law by corrupting the law, and messed up the register and accounts."

Zhang Su understood that there is no way to check the accounts, and all the scapegoats are pinned on Zhuzhu's book, and the current county government account books have been revised.

Zhang Su asked again, "How much food is left?"

Bai Erlang replied: "Last year, the suppression of bandits cost a lot of money and food."

Zhang Su suppressed the anger in his heart, sneered and said, "Excellent!"

In a year or two, he won't be able to do his business anymore, so he has to figure out how to deal with these subordinates.

Ignoring the matter of the county government, Zhang Su went to the residence to rest, and started to visit the county in low clothes the next day.

Not far away, I saw a few archers blackmailing the shop.

Deliberately dumped a basket of rotten vegetables and leaves at the door of the restaurant, insisting that the store did not clean the door, and extorted dozens of pennies before going to the next one.

Zhang Su came to the store and asked the shopkeeper, "Why are these archers so arrogant?"

The shopkeeper held back his anger, and didn't care about anything, and resentfully said: "Listen to the accent, the guest officer is a foreigner, right? Last year, Zhu Dutou suppressed bandits and trained three hundred archers. Most of them are good men. These archers But it was Zhu Dutou who picked up the leftover pickled rogues. The government doesn’t want good men, so they sent them all back to their hometowns, leaving only these rogues to be used.”

Zhang Su asked strangely: "Why doesn't the government want a good man, but only a rogue?"

The shopkeeper sarcastically said: "The good guys listen to Zhu Dutou. The government can't control it, and the poppiers are better at it. There are 22 of these archers. When they are short of money, they come to blackmail the people. Those shops with backing, they don't If you dare to provoke, you will only find us bitter people."

Zhang Su is not only the chief bookkeeper, but also a part-time county lieutenant, which happens to be the immediate boss of the archer.

At the moment there is a calculation, starting with the archers, Zhang Su asked: "How many archers do you know who have been dismissed?"

"I only know the ones in the city, but not the ones in the countryside." The shopkeeper replied.

Zhang Su had already made up his mind to replace the archers, and called back the people that Zhu Ming had trained seriously to be his first batch of confidants.He didn't ask about it again, but changed the topic: "That Zhu Dutou, is Zhu Chenggong, a scholar of the Eight Elements?"

"There is a saying by the Eight Elements Scholars." The shopkeeper nodded.

Zhang Su asked again: "Is he famous?"

The shopkeeper smiled and said: "It's good. In the past, there was Zhu Er in this county. He used to be a rebel, but later he became the master bookkeeper, and all the archers were replaced by rebels. The residents in the county town have been made miserable. Unbelievably, it was Zhu Dutou who led people to kill Zhu Er. When he was in the county, the archers were well-behaved. It's fine in the city."

"It's a pity." Zhang Su said.

"Why isn't it a pity?" the shopkeeper echoed.

The regrets of the two are different. Zhang Su regrets that Zhu Ming is a scholar of the Eight Elements, otherwise he would definitely invite the county government to listen to him.

……

However, after all the dozens of "immigrants" were registered, the Zheng family's boat set off again.

Seeing that Xue Daoguang was still on the boat, Zheng Hong couldn't help asking, "Didn't the Taoist disembark in the county seat?"

Xue Daoguang said: "You and I go all the way to Daming Village."

"Why are you going to Daming Village?" Zheng Hong asked.

"Looking for old friends," Xue Daoguang answered ambiguously, but instead asked Zheng Hong, "Do you know that there is immortal food in Daming Village?"

Zheng Hong frowned: "Immortal food?"

Xue Daoguang said: "It's corn and sweet potatoes."

Zheng Hong suddenly laughed: "Yes, yes, yes, it is immortal grain, which Zhu Xianggong brought back from overseas fairy islands. I heard that it is extremely high-yielding. After the autumn harvest, my family will also buy some seeds."

Xue Daoguang asked: "Did you really come from overseas?"

"I don't know," Zheng Hong said, "but Zhu Xianggong has indeed gone out to sea, sailing across the ocean in a huge boat, and it takes several months to go to sea at a time. Zhu Dalang also told me many sea stories, all of which are very strange. .There are also many strange creatures in the sea, such as a big bird as tall as a man, whose eggs weigh several catties. A giant mouse as tall as a man, with pockets on its stomach, in which it puts its young to drink milk..."

When he lived in Shangbai Village, Zheng Hong heard many stories, and now he tells Xue Daoguang all the time.

The more Xue Daoguang listened, the more certain he became, that Mr. Zhu probably met a god overseas.

Xue Daoguang really believes in gods, and the gods in his mind are cultivated by humans, ghosts, and elves.

When he commented on "Enlightenment", he pioneered the classification of immortals:
Those who are yin gods to spirits but invisible are ghosts and immortals;
Those who live forever without disease or disaster are immortals;
Flying in the air and walking through the fog, not hungry or thirsty, not invaded by cold and heat, roaming the islands, and those who live forever are immortals of the earth;
Those who are wonderful in form and spirit, in harmony with the Tao, infinitely changing, unpredictable in ghosts and spirits, are heavenly immortals.

Many settings of the online fairy tale novels of later generations come from Jindan Nanzong, including what is true essence, refining the gods to be empty, and a lot of them come from Xue Daoguang.

After listening to the overseas stories told by Zheng Hong, Xue Daoguang guessed that Zhu Guoxiang should have met the Earth Immortal on the island...

Well, definitely so.

Maybe his ancestor Ziyang Zhenren has also cultivated into an earth immortal and is now roaming the island.

Otherwise, how would the Zhu family know about the Taoist poems of the patriarch and compile them into "Journey to the West"?
The Bodhi Patriarch in "Journey to the West" is mostly his own master Ziyang Zhenren!

(I wish Captain Jagged Banner a happy birthday. The captain sets the alarm clock every day to grab the first chapter. I’d better wake up and write chapters in the future. Your body is important.)
(Ask for a monthly ticket at the end of the month.)
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